Preço Verde?

FNAC's Preços Verdes are supposedly a guarantee that their price is the lowest for the item in question. What's the guarantee, apparently none!

Yesterday, to use up a credit left over from exchanging Christmas gifts, we went to Toys R Us and bought a 32MB memory card for the PS2. Now Toys R Us is known not to be cheap, even when they give a 10% rebate to loyalty card holders. So for the rest of our shopping we went to Fnac.

At Fnac, the same memory card was 15 euros (43%!) more expensive. And the GBA that we ended up buying was 2 euros more expensive, but I wasn't going to walk all the way back to Toys R Us for two euros. Both items had Preço Verde stickers. So I pointed out the price discrepancy to the cashier - met with total indifference. He had no idea what I was talking about, nor why! Now Fnac is also not cheap. You pay for their huge product range and supposedly for their knowledgeable service. In that case, they should really be more careful with their "Best Prices".